Wisdom Metaphor Quotes

#1. Good music is a king or a queen; when it visits a place, all rise to their feet!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

Campbell Scott

#3. I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.

Jodie Foster

#4. Eddie looks at this, mouth dry, the familiar sensation of suffocation starting to tighten down in his chest like locking bolts.

Stephen King

#5. The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with what goes on outside it, because the only genuine joy you can have is in those rare moments when you feel that although we may know in part, as Paul says, we are also a part of what we know.

Northrop Frye

#6. I think poetry without metaphor is like husband and wife living in separate bedrooms.

Munia Khan

#7. The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.

Patrick Jones

#8. ...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.

Rebecca Solnit

#9. Bloody ashes, woman. This isn't a metaphor for anything! It's just boots.

Robert Jordan

#10. I should have known growing up and not having any money ever that I should have kept every dollar that I had.

Heidi Montag

#11. The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.

Ann Lewin-Benham

#12. Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#13. "Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

Larry Wall

#14. First Theory . There is no Providence at all for anything in the Universe; all parts of the Universe, the heavens and what they contain, owe their origin to accident and chance; there exists no being that rules and governs them or provides for them. This is the theory of Epicurus ...

Maimonides

#15. The best of myself, that point of light which distances me from everything, I owe to my infrequent encounters with a few bitter fools, a few disconsolate bastards, who, victims of the rigor of their cynicism, could no longer attach themselves to any vice.

Emil M. Cioran

#16. Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

William Goldman

#17. Meredith's a big girl. She knows how babies are made, don't you, Mer?"
I nod, numb and weary. "'Course I do. Same guy that taught you taught me.

Laura Wiess

#18. You knew that if you survived that accident, there's no way I could ever leave you again. Not unless I want your blood on my hands. You're lucky your gamble paid off. Now you can do or say whatever you want, can't you. You've got me right where you've always wanted me.

You win.

Heather Demetrios

#19. A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

Brandi L. Bates

#20. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

#21. If I had any advice for my 16-year-old self, it would just be to stay strong, because acting is not an easy lifestyle, especially when you are starting out. That being said, it definitely makes it all worth it when it does happen.

Melissa Benoist

#22. Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.

William Hazlitt

#23. ... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.

Lois Lowry